Council on Diversity and Inclusivity
Meeting District CR 201
March 21, 2013
2:00 p.m.
MINUTES
ATTENDANCE:
Allatia Harris, Bobby Mixon, Cristina Cardenas, Susan Temple, Martha Robertson, Erin
Lewis, Elle Meyer , Alexander Okwonna, Adam Rogers, Joshua Wilson, Wayne Wauters,
Saul Zarco, JD Mota, Tonga Conerly, Cynthia Montemayor-Allen
Welcome new members and open comments
Chair introduced Rosemarie Munoz, Senior Executive Assistant to the Vice Chancellor for
Strategic Initiatives
Discussion and Feedback from Community Day Presentations
Sexual orientation activities to promote cultural understanding
Student’s activities that include ethnic and cultural days that include all groups at all
three campus
Training concerns
Demographics for populations discussions
Service area/global citizen
Sanjac employees, part time, full time, student demographics, very supportive,
progressive
Hiring practices, to include diverse population
Discussion of San Jacinto College Image within the surrounding Hispanic Community
Language as an opportunity for outreach to community
Cultural Barriers to remove with sensitivity training
Posting positions/Wayne Wauters
Spreadsheet is available in the P drive, which list places for diverse faculty set up by
specialty
Hiring managers are the main contact to reach out to diverse candidates
Genetic list of positions that sanjac plans to offer on the website
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Posting sites for Provost positions at Higher Ed Jobs, the Chronicle ad, Chronicle for Higher
Ed, career builder, Diversity sites, Interest to reach female candidates, Hispanic, many
others
Stephen Lopez is successful with diverse hiring, states that HR cannot dictate to faculty any
hiring practices
Affirmative action plan
Face to face recruitment, community, job fairs, efficient processes, attract a diverse
population
Position closes on April 7, Provost, to hire by May 15
IT will provide updated and improved recourse tools and three rooms for interviewing with
web services, advanced visuals for interviewing candidates
Cardenas will post mentioned documents on Bb
Handout of the Chronicle for Higher Ed magazine about the topic on diversity and hiring
will be handed out at the next meeting
Approved Positions to be posted
35 Faculty to hire, opportunities for diverse
3 Campus Provosts
Faculty Hiring Committee:
Will include all employee levels and diversity
Discussion: ICC Workshops/Schedule/Trainings
Statistics and data for all campuses
Leadership Modules, how to recruit, diversity training
To recruit need to advertise
Need to research other community colleges and universities and their approaches to
inclusivity and cultural competence.
New Faculty Orientation to include training by CETL
Need evidence of change in culture competence with in sanjac
Update on acceptance of charter with SLT
Discussion: Calendar of activities
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We will revisit diversity
Stephen Lopez
Committees are asking questions, seeking out diverse population
I don’t know what he said, I left to make copies and got lost
HACU International Conference
JD Mota, Stephen Lopez
Opportunities for growth
Exchange programs
Study abroad
Globalization
Bulling
Lone Star
Community Outreach
Institutional partnerships
Veterans
Need representation
Social networking skills
Conversations about discipline issues already happening on campuses
Faculty training to deal with issue
Veterans Task Force
o Directors need to be trained to be sensitive to needs
Blackboard Site
Will post minutes and will set it up, past meetings, documents, new members,
communication
Other Business
Lopez and Zarco will attend conference, event for Hispanics
Harris will attend STEM conference
Community outreach for the Spanish speaking, connections,
Elementary schools
at the High Schools, and
Next meeting is April 4, District CR 104 at 2:00 p.m.
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